Rene Klok Biography

She was born in Plymouth, and she lived in London most of her life. She began as the author of congratulatory cards, and she brought fame to her illustrations for the classic works of English children's literature - “Wind in the willows” of Kenneth Graham and “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll. Renee Klok also entered the treasury of world literature for children.

Once Rene Klok tried to compose her own fairy tale about forest inhabitants and illustrated her. So “Forest Stories” appeared and their continuation - “Forest stories. New adventures. " Good, touching, deprived of intrusive edification, but the readers of the whole world have clearly arranged moral accents. Rene Klok. Forest stories The first story in the collection “Forest Stories” is called “In Search of the House”, but in general it would be more suitable for the name “As a hare of a new house was looking for”.

After all, Rene Klok builds his work according to the canons of a folklore fairy tale. It all starts with the fact that the hero, a bunny by the name of the ears apart, leaves the house, goes in search of a new home and experiences many adventures. Episodes are strung on each other, as in the “Kolobka” or “Republic”. The hare meets different forest inhabitants alternately - a mouse, squirrel, frog.

Each of them offers him a dwelling in his mind: mouse - mink, linen - hollow, frog - shelter by the river itself. But the hare rejects all these options. It is closely in a mouse hole, it is uncomfortable to live on a tree, and in a frog house is damp. Finally, a capricious hare falls into the river, and a swift stream takes him directly under the blades of a water mill.

From the mortal danger of the hero, the good -natured and wise cow saves. She shows the hare the way to the best house in the world. And this house is the house of his parents! It was from here that he so arrogantly left at the beginning of the narrative. Everything is known in comparison, and Bunny, having received a new life experience and nearly perishing, comes to the conclusion: “This is the best house in the world.

And it’s not close here at all! This story has an obvious moral and psychological subtext.

She talks about a teenage riot, separation from parents, acquiring a new life experience and the adoption of a teenager to a new level of development - the adoption of an older generation and awareness of the value of family relations. At the beginning of the story, Bunny's ears apart - a self -confident rebellion, striving to break off connections with his native hearth: “I want to live alone!

I have already grown! I need a separate mink. Of the three rooms! The next story is called the "hat and fair." Fox Lapushka invites friends to the forest fair, which will be discovered by the "star of the forest stage - singer Gusyn Gaga." The fair will be charitable: the fox is going to give all the revenue from the sale of flowers "for the treatment of small animals." She wants to put on a beautiful hat to open and participate in the competition for the best headdress.

But suddenly a gust of wind takes the hat and throws it into the river! To console a girlfriend, the animals collectively weave a new headdress to the fox. And in the future, unlucky heroine is constantly helped by good people ... Or rather, animals and birds, but the young reader in forest inhabitants easily recognizes people. Renee Klok colorfully describes fair entertainment, fun contests, tasty treats and accompanies all this with multi -color, detailed, penetrated warm light illustrations.

The hedgehog is sharp needles on a fine summer day decides to arrange a picnic to himself, but on the way he gives a bicycle with a basket in which there are supplies, a tired mouse with heavy bags. And then his paw saves his foot from the trap of the lingerie in the crevice between the stones near the river. Hedgehog does not even think about gratitude, but his responsiveness is rewarded with a hundredfold: the squirrel family arranges the Savior of his son with a real feast, and the mouse returns a bicycle with a basket of different goodies.

And everyone converges into the thought: “Dear Hedgehog, you are so kind! You are a true friend! In the next collection “Forest Stories. New adventures ”Heroes loved by the reader continue to fall into various difficult positions and help each other. Greatness, the ability to forgive friends with little weaknesses and misses, the willingness to rush to the rescue is described without any pathos, with soft humor, unchanged happy end and feast for the whole world.

The frog Kvak, the proteins of Philbert and Sally, the mouse of Woody, the forest Sonya Noddi, the mouse of the baby, the puppy of Lari, the piglet stubble, the cat of the soul and other characters of these fabulous stories will probably be loved by little readers. After all, they are invariably friendly, sincere and always ready to help each other. Learning to be a real friend - such a task is set by Rene Klok to his readers, but does it subtly and delicately.

Her heroes want to imitate in their kindness and altruism. It is not surprising that these books were a great success among readers. Bibliography: Klok, R. Klok, R. Forest Stories.